#robotics Logs

Nov 13 2014

21:06 rue_shop2 can barely hear it (till something breaks)
21:50 orlock FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
21:51 orlock just tried to use my 'scope, no picture
22:05 rue_house turn the knob marked 'inten'
22:05 rue_house set the horizontal sync to 'auto'
22:07 rue_house set the inputs to 'gnd'
22:07 rue_house wiggle the vert position knobs
22:07 rue_house and pleeeed with it to work
22:08 rue_house today, I think, spagetti
22:08 Tom_itx www is harder to say than world wide web
22:09 Tom_itx thought for the evening...
22:09 Tom_itx gnite
22:11 rue_house "how much of the food you eat comes from a can" "THATS A SILLY QUESTION, _ALL_ FOOD COMES FROM CANS!"
22:13 orlock rue: its a tek digital scope.. doesnt even display BIOS message on internal or external screen
22:13 orlock two short beeps, then delay then 3
22:13 rue_house MEMORY ERROR?
22:13 orlock think cmos battery flat possibly, but doesnt explain no output on either of the external display ports
22:13 orlock yeah, guess i'll open it and start reseating bits
22:13 orlock see if a termite got in there
22:14 lock sw
22:14 rue_house surf to see what the error code is
22:14 orlock i had just foiund a buyer too, was going to use it to pay off credit card debt
22:14 orlock 5 beeps in total, the docs say 5 beeps is an unused code
22:14 rue_house no, its 2 and 3
22:14 rue_house whats error 2
22:15 rue_house Parity errors have been detected in the first 64 KB of memory
22:15 rue_house A failure has occurred within the first 64 KB or memory
22:15 orlock parity cannot be rest is 2, first 64k memory failure is 3
22:15 rue_house see 2 beeps then 3 beeps
22:15 orlock so open and reseat/replace ram
22:15 rue_house so see what kinda ram its using
22:15 rue_house is it a sim?
22:16 rue_house I wonder who's bios it is
22:16 orlock need to find my torx bits to find out
22:16 rue_house for ram!?
22:16 rue_house there should be a little door for that
22:17 rue_house a revolving one!
22:17 rue_house you will find the door when you take the lid off
22:17 orlock http://www.afc-ingenieros.com/uploads/Afc/Productos/Tektronix/Manuales/Osciloscopios%20TDS5000B/TDS5000B%20Service%20Manual%20-%20071-1362-01.pdf
22:17 rue_house http://www.technick.net/public/code/cp_dpage.php?aiocp_dp=guide_beep_codes
22:18 rue_house oh dont tell me it runs windows...
22:18 orlock WinME!
22:18 e_house p
22:19 rue_house (sorry, reflex)
22:20 e_house checks if the water level int eh boiler dropped too m
22:20 rue_house yea, I have to re-prime the rad loop
22:20 rue_house grrrr
22:24 orlock theres an "accessory tray door" but i cant see how it opens
22:24 rue_house heheh, dissassemble the case to find out
22:24 e_house shrugs, life s
22:24 rue_house then you die
22:24 rue_house I have to remmeber to oil the furnace motors
22:25 rue_house Tom_itx, the 3/8" belt works great
23:40 rue_house 25" was a bit long, but not so much I couldn't make it work out